UConn Easily Extends Winning Streak to 62

Connecticut quickly turned a rematch of last season’s national championship game into a mismatch.

The top-ranked Huskies (23-0, 10-0 Big East) were barely tested by the final team they faced on last year’s championship run, using potent 3-point shooting and an exhausting defense to breeze past short-handed Louisville, 84-38, on Sunday.

“If teams are playing against us, you’d better hope we miss shots,” UConn Coach Geno Auriemma said. “When we hit shots like we did today from the perimeter, we’re tough to play against.”

Such was the predicament host Louisville (11-12, 3-7) found itself in from the opening minutes until the end as UConn extended its winning streak to 62, the second longest in women’s N.C.A.A. Division I history behind only the 70-game streak by the 2001-3 Huskies.

SYRACUSE 71, CINCINNATI 54 Kris Joseph hit a pair of 3-pointers that sparked No. 3 Syracuse’s decisive second-half run, and the visiting Orange kept the best start in team history going with a victory over Cincinnati, its 10th in a row. Syracuse (23-1, 10-1 Big East) closed with a 28-5 run.